Word: sumnerism
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...going to cut off the supply of something you can produce at home?" asks Mona Sumner, chief operations officer of the Rimrock Foundation, Billings' (and Montana's) largest drug-rehab facility. Sumner, in her 30 years at Rimrock, has seen many a drug craze come and go, but she has never felt this frightened or frustrated. Crank admissions to her facility have tripled in the past four years...
...been studying is at the edge of campus, on a mixed-use block bordered by the Graduate School of Design in Gund Hall, the international centers in Coolidge Hall, the Swedenborg Chapel, houses on Kirkland Street (one of which houses the Core program) and academic and residential structures on Sumner Road. We understand and share what we take to be the community's central concerns: to conserve and improve the green space behind Gund Hall and to build in keeping with the scale of the site, respecting its proximity to a residential neighborhood. One way to accomplish this...
...longtime residents of the neighborhood face the prospects of this behemoth with dismay. The projected new building is completely out of size scale for the allotted space, an area bounded by Kirkland Street and Sumner Road...
There were no formal votes taken, but residents almost unanimously disapproved of one proposal which would have put the entire department in one building at the cost of several residences on nearby Sumner Street...
...heavy hitters settle this weighty issue? They flipped a coin. Not without some maneuvering, of course. Team DreamWorks, which consists of Jeffrey Katzenberg, David Geffen and Spielberg, was determined that Spielberg should follow a premonition and call tails. "I believe in Steven's premonitions," Katzenberg explains. But Sumner Redstone, chairman of Viacom, Paramount's parent company, and a man who would negotiate a sunrise, insisted that Spielberg toss his own quarter while he, Redstone, made the call. The DreamWorkers gave in. Redstone, to their relief, called heads. Tails...